2018 AVC Men's Challenge Cup

The 2018 AVC Men's Challenge Cup was the inaugural edition of the AVC Challenge Cup, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) and that year with the Sri Lanka Volleyball Federation (SLVF). The tournament was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka from 15 to 21 September 2018.

Qualification


8 AVC member associations qualified for the 2018 AVC Men's Challenge Cup. Sri Lanka qualified as hosts and the 3 teams were qualified from the 2017 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship while 4 teams were new entrants. The 8 AVC member associations were from 4 zonal associations, including Central Asia (2 teams), East Asia (2 team), Southeast Asia (1 team), and Western Asia (3 teams). Fiji and Uzbekistan withdrew from the tournament.

Qualified teams
The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Pools composition
The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Pool standing procedure

 * 1) Number of matches won
 * 2) Match points
 * 3) Sets ratio
 * 4) Points ratio
 * 5) Result of the last match between the tied teams

Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser

Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser

Awards

 * Most valuable player
 * Ahmed Albakheet


 * Best outside spikers
 * Deepthi Romesh
 * Horosit Biswas


 * Best setter
 * 🇮🇶 Mustafa Haneed Jabbar


 * Best opposite spiker
 * 🇮🇶 Hussain Nameer Shamil


 * Best middle blocker
 * Ibrahim Majrashi
 * 🇮🇶 Islam Sachit Challab


 * Best libero
 * Lakmal Wijesekara